The medieval world
(CD + Book)

Compact discs.

Course guidebook includes lecture outlines and notes, a timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.

Course No. 8280.

36 half-hour lectures presented in three parts with a separate lecture transcript and guidebook for each part.

Includes bibliographical references (course guidebooks).

Taught by Professor Dorsey Armstrong of Purdue University.

"Between the fall of the Roman Empire and the brief, brilliant cultural phenomenon we call the Renaissance lay the Middle Ages-- fully 1,000 years of artistic, philosophical, political, and religious turmoil and treasures. This course offers an interdisciplinary look at medieval society and culture, with an emphasis on literature, the arts, and the tumultuous historical forces at work from A.D. 500 through A.D. 1500. Medieval Europe was the world of cathedrals and universities; pilgrimages and saints; the Black Death; the Vikings; the spread of Islam; the Crusades; and the forging of the Greek, Latin, Old Norse, and ancient Germanic and Celtic tongues into the languages we speak today"--Publisher provided.